Word: realism
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...called The Lady on the Rock, and not all of its viewers liked it. The sponsor (Block Drug Co., Inc.) winced under a barrage of protests, ranging from charges that the show "set back the education of retarded children by ten years," to complaints about "unpleasant realism." One critic demanded that CBS send a kinescope to New York's Governor Dewey as Exhibit A in an argument for TV censorship. Nor were network executives and admen comforted by the fact that they got as many compliments as brickbats. In the complex world of commercial television, one boo means...
...more interested in character than plot, and Danger is chiefly distinguished for fine camera work, the haunting theme music of Guitarist Tony Mottola, and a leaning toward psychological melodrama. Disconcerted by the response to The Lady on the Rock, Russell & Lumet may call a halt to further experiments in realism, get back in the groove with the uncomplicated mayhem and murder that are the staple of TV's suspense shows...
...done on the stage, e.g.: part of the set opens or lights up to represent the past, and without a change of costume or makeup, Willy Loman walks out of the present and enacts a scene reliving a memory. This technique, striking in itself, clashes oddly with the everyday realism of the movie's settings. Director Benedek does not improve matters by tricking up the sets with such expressionistic embellishments as diamonds twinkling symbolically from silhouetted trees on a Brooklyn street...
Increasingly deaf and forever ailing, the earl took to shuttling stoically between Bath and London, in one city drinking the waters, in the other, the bitter tea of a lonely old age. His reason had withered his faith in God and realism had whittled his faith in man, but nothing ever weakened his faith in manners. On his deathbed, his valet announced that a friend, Solomon Dayrolles, had come to see him. "Give Dayrolles a chair," croaked Chesterfield, and died...
Later glaziers, who made the 172 windows on the side aisles and chapels of Chartres, achieved greater realism but no such magnificent color. To the anonymous makers of the earlier windows, color was everything. They used it with all the brilliance and daring that modern scientists apply to atomic particles. With God's help they created a vast yet perfectly ordered implosion of light...